Letter from the Producer LXII

[White_Wolf_X]

Really hope they add Male Viera and female Hrothgar in a later patch in shadowbringers.

Also "FFXIV has around ten thousand equippable items" .. now could just be me but that number seems abit high.

[zeylos]

You're forgetting the other side of that equation:

If no Viera were added, you would have people complaining about no male Viera, you would have a rabid swarm of people complaining about no Viera at all.
Conversely, if no Hrothgar were added, you wouldn't have people complaining about no female Hrothgar, you would have the same rabid swarm of people complaining about "oh, another human with animal ears attached".

Face it, they took the path of least resistance that would satisfy the most amount of people they could. As a company, their bottom line is money, so you can be VERY sure that they did the proper research to find which would satisfy the most people.

I already said that there would be complaint, but no where near as much

[Halivel]

Also "FFXIV has around ten thousand equippable items" .. now could just be me but that number seems abit high.

Well... how to say. If we open "armor" section in official database, it has 8326 items. Plus 2594 in accessories. Plus 3072 in arms. Plus 650 in tools. Yes, you don't need to adjust all of them, but you will need to check that there are no any glitches anyway, so it's a lot of work.

[reivaxe]

The point is, there is a huge amount of ppl who want male Viera. There is a huge amount of ppl who want female hrotgar, and we have literally no idea on what a majority is since this forums are about 3-5% of the playerbase. If no Viera was added, no one would be complaining about no male Viera, and if no hrotgar was added, no one would be complaining about no female hrotgar. Regardless of what they did, it was going to get some backlash, but what they did was the worst possible option in terms of backlash and press, considering if they stuck to wht they wanted to do and did only full hrotgar, there would have been drama for 1 month and done. There will be drama about gender lock until the end of the game

Oh yes, the <10 who spam the male Viera thread sure show me this huge number lol

And yeah, this forum is small ... maybe try looking at more places yourself to see better what people want? I visit a number of popular sites to discuss FF14 and the ENGLISH side of this forum is the only one that's this hung up on Viera Male.

And no, just no. This is the best route to pleasing the most people with the final addition to this game.

[zeylos]

Oh yes, the <10 who spam the male Viera thread sure show me this huge number lol

And yeah, this forum is small ... maybe try looking at more places yourself to see better what people want? I visit a number of popular sites to discuss FF14 and the ENGLISH side of this forum is the only one that's this hung up on Viera Male.

And no, just no. This is the best route to pleasing the most people with the final addition to this game.

Lol then the <3 who spammed beast race are also a huge number lol

[White_Wolf_X]

Well... how to say. If we open "armor" section in official database, it has 8326 items. Plus 2594 in accessories. Plus 3072 in arms. Plus 650 in tools. Yes, you don't need to adjust all of them, but you will need to check that there are no any glitches anyway, so it's a lot of work.

I just didn't think the game had that high a number of items to be fair, never bothered to check until now.

[Iscah]

The restaurant analogy doesn't really work here, because that suggests every person is free to order exactly what they want, and the only thing actually stopping them from giving you meal A with non-standard ingredient B is an arbitrary decision that they won't deviate from their set menu. They could just do it if they wanted to, for no extra work. That isn't the situation here at all.

[Dualblade]

Really hope they add Male Viera and female Hrothgar in a later patch in shadowbringers.

Also "FFXIV has around ten thousand equippable items" .. now could just be me but that number seems abit high.

It won't happen in Shadowbringers I'll tell you that much. 6.0 would be the earliest we'd see them playable if they get added.

[White_Wolf_X]

It won't happen in Shadowbringers I'll tell you that much. 6.0 would be the earliest we'd see them playable if they get added.

Can always hope we see them sooner.

[Krotoan]

Can always hope we see them sooner.

Considering they've admitted they're not even done with the two promised implementations, don't hold your breath.